Le Louvre

So this weekend I finally went to the Louvre with a camera. Therefore I have a bunch of pictures today. It'll probably take two posts to get them in. Glennis and I also hosted a "naze" dinner party, where unfortunately only one other person showed up out of three invited. Oh well. At least the chocolate cake was amazing. Then today we saw "Les Femmes de l'Ombre"-Women of the Shadows and "Soyez Sympa-Rembobinez"-Be Kind-Rewind. The second one was pretty funny, but I preferred Les Femmes de l'Ombre, which was in French and on a group of women in the French Resistance. Awesome, but largely because it was shot in a very American style. Ok, the pictures from the Louvre:

First: a modern piece depicting a scientist (see the microscope?)


This one is the picture on the front of my high school English copy of "Hamlet"


This one's a little blurry because I couldn't use the flash, but it's a monkey painting. I actually saw some other versions elsewhere in the Louvre.
This is actually in the garden, Tuileries, in front of the Louvre. Scared the crap out of me.
This is a really awesome, huge French painting, and I need to explain it a little because the story is really cool. The woman in the center is the Virgin Mary, surrounded by the Apostles. The little balls of pink fire raining down on everyone are gifts from God to give the Apostles the languages necessary to spread the word of God throughout the world.